NEUVE (c. 1235–1313)  , alchemist, astrologer and physician, appears to have been of Spanish origin, and to have studied chemistry, medicine, physics, and also Arabian philosophy . After having lived at the court of Aragon, he went to Paris, where he gained a considerable reputation; but he incurred the enmity of the ecclesiastics and was forced to flee, finally finding an asylum in Sicily . About 1313 he was summoned to Avignon by Pope Clement V., who was ill, but he died on the voyage . Many alchemical writings, including Thesaurus Thesaurorum or Rosarius Philosophorum, Novum Lumen, Flos Florum, and Speculum Alchimiae, are ascribed to him, but they are of very doubtful authenticity . Collected editions of them were published at Lyons in 1504 and 1532 (with. a biography by Symphorianus Campegius), at Basel in 1585, at Frankfort in 1603, and at Lyons in 1686 . He is also the reputed author of various medical works, including Breviarium Practicae . See J . B . Haureau in the Histoire litteraire de la France (1881), vol . 28; E . Lalande, Arnaud de Villeneuve, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1896) . A list of writings is given by J .

Ferguson in his Bibliotheca Chemica (1906) . See also U . Chevalier, Repertoire des sources hist., &c., Bio-bibliographie (Paris, 1903) .